6/7/2023 0 Comments Foldingtext movie![]() It just wasn’t what they wanted or could use. After posting the firsts preview release the reaction was that very few existing FoldingText users thought they could make use of FoldingText in this new form. Mutahhir put a lot of time and effort into this route, but unfortunately this new take on FoldingText was too much of a departure from the original app. I wasn’t terribly excited by the idea, but I was/am grateful that Mutahhir was still willing to put energy into the project, trying to move it forward. Since the incremental changes Mutahhir was making weren’t helping sales Mutahhir decided to take it in different and riskier direction that he was interested in exploring. He added a number of features including the outline view and did lots of smaller updates and code cleanup. Mutahhir decide to come back to create FoldingText 2.1 and 2.2 as a side project (he had/has another full-time job because FoldingText’s not been making enough to support a full-time developer). TaskPaper’s a less ambitious project, but I think simpler and more in line with my own goals. My efforts were redirected to building TaskPaper 3. At this point I wanted project to work for existing users, but I wasn’t using it myself. Soon afterward I wrapped up a bunch of work that we’d done into FoldingText 2. In 2014 Hog Bay Software sales weren’t enough to sustain all 4 developers and had to shrink back to just me. Over time markdown became a core component and complexity grew and I started to think maybe this wasn’t turning out to be the project that I was originally trying to build. Goal was plain text productivity platform. I created FoldingText 1 over 2009-2014 time period together with Mutahhir as main other developer. I’m in the process of trying to decide what to do next with the project. The download at is still there, and requires a license, but I’ve changed the license price to $0. I removed FoldingText from the Mac App Store last week.
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